269

TELEGRAMS TO M. K. VLADIMIROV

Written: Written on February 26, 1919
Published:
First Published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV.
Sent to Voronezh.
Printed from The first telegram is printed from the original, the second from the text of the telegraph form.
Source:Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1975,
Moscow,
Volume 44,
page 198b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
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1

The Council of Defence has decided that if the
Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic fails, within two
days, to present a reasoned decision in favour of the
Povorino-Tsaritsyn line, we shall give priority to the
Liski-Likhaya line. The Commissariat for Railways plainly states
that there cannot be enough materials for restoring the
bridges of both lines. I fully agree with this decision of
the Council of Defence, but if you can perform a miracle
by contriving to repair the Povorino-Tsaritsyn line in
addition to the Liski-Likhaya line, you will indeed be a
miracle worker.

2

I personally agree to leave you if you undertake to
restore both lines, as you write. I shall try today to get in
touch with Tsyurupa and Sverdlov, and if we arrive at
a different decision I shall telegraph you immediately.
Probably Nevsky did not know what materials you can get
from the south. I shall pass on to him both your memos.